News from Pascack Press and Northern Valley Press on education, schools and students.
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.—The new Valley Kids Matter Foundation held its first event open to the public on Feb. 6, with New Jersey Disability Ombudsman Paul Aronsohn addressing a local group […]
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—On Feb. 21, an educational and entertaining assembly program at Dwight Morrow Academies@Englewood brought Black History Month to life. Assemblies were held in the morning and afternoon in the […]
NEW JERSEY—School administrators state-wide were urged March 2 “to prepare for possible community transmission of [coronavirus] COVID-19” by the state Department of Health, which provided step-by-step guidance to local districts […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—A group of young robotics experts—fifth and sixth graders known as the “Bot Squad”—presented council members Jan. 15 with a vision of an environmentally-friendly transportation future for Closter: an […]
NEW JERSEY—Twelve schools throughout New Jersey will serve as proving grounds for newly developed lessons focused on teaching about the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to middle school and high school […]
NEW JERSEY—A new curriculum to help educators include contributions from LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities will be piloted by 12 schools throughout New Jersey beginning January 2020 with an […]
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.—Every school district in Bergen County should have a team of professionals dedicated to providing mental health services for students—including a mental health professional—and creating these teams will […]
DEMAREST, N.J.—Students who attend either Northern Valley Regional District high school—in Demarest and Old Tappan—can now train for a future career as an interactive digital designer in diverse fields such […]
NEW JERSEY—State funding to install silent panic alarms at elementary and secondary schools statewide—part of Alyssa’s Law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in February—may be made available by late summer […]
BY MICHAEL OLOHANOF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS TENAFLY, N.J.—After recommending Tenafly’s school district hire special law enforcement officers for its six schools at the Dec. 10, 2018, meeting, the school superintendent […]
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